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Technology has always found its greatest consumer in a nation's war and defense efforts. Since the last attempts at a "Star Wars" defense system, has technology changed considerably enough to make the latest Missile Defense initiatives more successful? Can such an application of science be successful? Is a militarized space inevitable, necessary or impossible?

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almarst2003 - 12:07pm Mar 23, 2003 EST (# 10365 of 10412)

By my observation we are vitnessing the Neo-Mongolian conquest. They too had a superior military. And not lesser ruthlessness.

dccougar - 12:16pm Mar 23, 2003 EST (# 10366 of 10412)
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own facts.

lchic - 11:11am Mar 23, 2003 EST [quoting] - "The gene… leaps from body to body down the generations, manipulating body after body in its own way and for its own ends..."

lchic, this Selfish Gene hypothesis sounds like Dawkins is attributing some sort of consciousness or intelligence or self-determination to these little molecular assemblages we call genes. I haven't read the past 10,000 postings in this forum, but what is your position on Dawkins' view... or on this method of expressing it?

lchic - 12:21pm Mar 23, 2003 EST (# 10367 of 10412)
~~~~ It got understood and exposed ~~~~

Gingus Khan along with Mongolian horsemen - a then superior mode of transportation were a ruthless bunch.

They terrorised Eurasia.

They plundered and took

BUT

They didn't 'build'

If eventually there was nothing to plunder, or, others had the new horse technology and could resist ... then those days of Mongolian Empire were over.

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Oil is the black-blood of the C19,C20, C21 horse - motor transportation

These blood banks of the Middle East have been slow to move from pipeline economy to modernity ... the transition is happening - slowly.

Just as the plunder strategy of Gingus Khan became outmoded, so too, the failure to Nation-build a humanitarian secular economy that meets the needs of all within national boundaries.

Where people can work and give of their best under he leadership of modernday gods - psychologists - and self-actualise to maximium potential.

Maslow type link ...

http://www.performance-unlimited.com/samain.htm

fredmoore - 12:28pm Mar 23, 2003 EST (# 10368 of 10412)

Robert,

" Shamanism is one of the more interesting religions in Mongolia. "

It appears it may be a CIA religion as well. I saw on SKY News yesterday an interview with a former CIA 'op' in which he said that they believed Saddam was into 'channeling' and that they suspected he may have connections with the ancient Babylonian king, Nebuchanezer. He mentioned that they were reading up on their ancient history to see if their were any clues as to Saddams behaviour. He said that Saddam was a brilliant strategist and worth standing back to look at.

With your knowledge of the CIA, what is your take on this?

Out.

rshow55 - 12:38pm Mar 23, 2003 EST (# 10369 of 10412)
Can we do a better job of finding truth? YES. Click "rshow55" for some things Lchic and I have done and worked for on this thread.

I've heard it said that certain bureaucrats have suffered from "an extreme juxtaposition of their bodily parts" . . . and in addition to muddle, stupidity and deception - there are some very mixed motives, too.

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